Excessive worry can negatively influence one’s developmental trajectories. In the past 70 years, there have been studies aimed towards documenting and analysing concerns or ‘worries’ of teen and preteen individuals. There have been many quantitative and qualitative approaches established, suggesting different themes of contextual adolescent worry. With the hopes of future clinical utility, it is important to parse through these studies and gather what is currently known about what teens and preteens worry about and what is the state of methods used to gather that knowledge. Studies were searched for using Web of Science, PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus and ScienceDirect databases and selected on systematic criteria. Data regarding the country in which the study took place, participants, methods of collection, worry themes and conclusions and limitations were extracted. Data were synthesised in a narrative fashion. It was concluded that currently available methods of measuring themes of adolescent worry face certain problems. Themes of worry differ substantially between the studies, with the exception of school performance seeing stable high endorsement across cultures and ages. Issues with ordering worry themes and implications for future understanding of adolescent and preadolescent worry are discussed.

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年轻人最担心什么？对青少年和青春期前个体的担忧主题测量的系统评价

过度担心会对一个人的发展轨迹产生负面影响。在过去的 70 年里，有一些研究旨在记录和分析青少年和青春期前个体的担忧或“担忧”。已经建立了许多定量和定性的方法，表明了不同背景的青少年担忧主题。怀着对未来临床应用的希望，重要的是解析这些研究并收集目前已知的关于青少年和青春期前的担忧的信息以及用于收集这些知识的方法的状态。使用 Web of Science、PubMed、PsycINFO、Scopus 和 ScienceDirect 数据库搜索研究，并根据系统标准进行选择。有关进行研究的国家、参与者、收集方法的数据，提取了担忧主题、结论和局限性。数据以叙述方式合成。得出的结论是，目前可用的衡量青少年忧虑主题的方法面临一些问题。研究之间的担忧主题差异很大，除了学校表现在不同文化和年龄上得到稳定的高度认可。讨论了排序忧虑主题的问题以及对未来理解青少年和青春期前忧虑的影响。